Hack #2 leaks your billing address, while Hack #3 leaked credit card information and a name associated with the account.
Hack #1 exposed your username and an encrypted form of password that can be cracked with sufficient effort. Imagine that you use three different services, all of which are hacked. Perhaps that makes you feel better, but as ExtremeTech’s seemingly annoyed Joel Hruska wrote: The personal details served up to other players “varied,” but ranged from Steam users’ “billing address, the last four digits of their Steam Guard phone number, their purchase history, the last two digits of their credit card number, and/or their email address.” Valve added, “These cached requests did not include full credit card numbers, user passwords, or enough data to allow logging in as or completing a transaction as another user.” A bit later, Valve shut down the Steam Store altogether…but users were left in the dark about what happened.Īfter five days of silence, Valve finally explained “Steam’s troubled Christmas” that resulted in strangers viewing about 34,000 Steam users’ sensitive information. Concerned, some players who checked out their account settings saw other people’s personal details such as partial credit card numbers, phone numbers and email addresses. On Christmas day, some gamers visiting the Steam Store during the Winter Sale were bewildered by their Steam client showing Russian or another language different than their own. Of the millions of gamers buying and playing games over their holiday break, how many were aware of the Christmas day attack on Steam? If you were hunting for a new game when it happened, then you probably knew about it as Steam was up, down, and even accidentally shared the personal details of about 34,000 gamers. That being said, today is the last day of the Steam winter sale. Counter-Strike had 643,402 concurrent players and Fallout 4 came in third at the peak with 116,599 gamers. The Steam stats showed Dota 2 as the most played game which peaked at 940,373 concurrent gamers. Gamasutra reported that there were 12,332,504 concurrent users. 3 when over 12 million gamers were all gaming at the same time.